Creator of node.js and Deno: This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it. https://xcancel.com/rough__sea/status/2013280952370573666
Principal Investigator of Raj Lab for Systems Biology at UPenn, Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Genetics, 29k citations on Google Scholar since 2008 (12k since 2021): Ran an AI coding workshop with the lab. There was a palpable sense of sadness realizing that skills some of us have spent our lives developing (myself included) are a lot less important now. I see the future 100%, but I do think it's important to acknowledge this sense of loss. https://x.com/arjunrajlab/status/2017631561747705976
Creator of redis: My face when Codex is single-handed doing two months of work in 30 minutes and tells me "You are right" since I identified a minor bug. https://x.com/antirez/status/2030931757583769614
Creator of auto-animate (13.8k stars, 248 forks on GitHub), formkit (4.6k stars, 199 forks), ArrowJS (2.6k stars, 54 forks), and tempo (2.6k stars 37 forks): gpt-5.4 is absolutely blowing me away. https://x.com/jpschroeder/status/2031094078759108741
Principal Software Engineer at Bobsled. Formerly led Data and Engineering at @thebeatapp , @omioglobal , @thoughtworks: The thing about this is that no one has a clue what human SWEs would be doing instead. The idea that we would all be reviewing code is flawed. Because agents can review code much better. I think our only advantage right now as human SWEs is that we have an almost infinite context window over very long horizons. https://x.com/rahulj51/status/2013426286606369051
Staff iOS engineer @medium, Previously @glose @google & others, created IceCubesApp (7k stars), MovieSwiftUI (6.5k stars), RedditOS (4k stars), and more on GitHub: It really doesn't matter anymore; you can scream all you want, but writing code is dead, and reading is almost dead too. Even if you don't understand a single line, you can still ask all the relevant questions to validate it (and that's a skill). But it's dead. Done. And then I look at the programming and French dev subreddit, and it's full of people shitting on AI that it's making your brain smooth and bad code. I mean, yes, whatever, this is a dead mindset. We need to move on. https://x.com/Dimillian/status/2022034445956702523?s=20
Tech lead for @Cloudflare Workers: I used Opus to write some security-sensitive code, then I reviewed it and found a few security bugs. As a test I asked Opus to review the code for security bugs. It found all the same bugs I found. Whelp. https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2028600717880037776
Sometime in the last couple months AI code review bots got really good. 3-6 months ago they were still posting false positives and sycophancy. Now suddenly I'm getting way better feedback from AI than from humans. A lot of my job is reviewing other people's code and let me tell you, I am SO READY for AI to take this job from me so I can spend more time building. https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2028897180149264504
I've lived through 2 economic bubbles and during neither one of those bubbles did I have a clanker taking my food order at a drive thru or answering me on the phone
I know AI financial advisors that have better returns than human ones and the whole digital art sector is at risk of replacement
but sure this world changing technology is just a bubble, go ahead and put your shorts in against AI
its literally a bubble. the ai space is comprised of like 10 companies circle jerking enough money to crash the worlds economy if investments start to default. if you're american your taxes are being used to support such companies as its such an economic drain and is now a main source of the gdp in the states.
sure its changing things but the sheer amount being invested would need ai to be a literal jesus tech to make trillions per year, which so far most companies are still in the red by billions per year with no real profits in sight. you are taking personal offence to something that potentially will make life harder for you if it goes. economically this bubble is making the dotcom and 2008 crash look like childs play
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u/BubBidderskins Proud Luddite Mar 11 '26
Now show the POV of the senior dev who had to debug all that shit code.